Road traffic Noise league submits petition for the installation of noise cameras

Noise cameras should be installed in Switzerland and the legal basis for this should be created. This is what the Swiss Noise League is calling for in a petition with almost 20,000 signatures submitted in Bern on Monday.

Rattling exhausts and howling engines disturb sleep and spoil time spent outdoors, wrote the Lärmliga when handing in the petition. And noise is harmful to health. Anyone who causes avoidable noise with a vehicle can now be fined. But the police need help to carry out constant checks.

Noise speed cameras detect passing vehicles that are too loud, similar to radar speedometers. A pilot project by the Federal Office for the Environment in Geneva has shown that the devices are technically possible and useful, wrote the Lärmliga. Noise speed cameras should therefore be introduced nationwide.

A trial with noise speed cameras is to be carried out in Zurich. Police chief Karin Rykart (Greens) commissioned the city police to do so, as was announced in July. The city parliament also requested a trial with the devices. However, it was still unclear when the first devices would be installed.

Gabriela Suter, Aargau SP National Councillor and President of the Noise League, was quoted in the press release on the handover of the petition as saying that no new laws were required. However, noise monitors could lead to better compliance with current laws.

Last June, Suter had already submitted a motion for the creation of a legal basis for noise speed cameras. 19 members of the Council from all parliamentary groups except the SVP signed the motion. The Federal Council has not yet commented on this.

SDA